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title: Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your to… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out--thus! Who acts: I, ye. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 3, sentence 146

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Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out--thus!

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** think, sit, loll out, be, drive out · **To what, where:** tongues, somebodies, dogs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:3:146
# text = Nor do I think that ye will sit here any longer, lolling out your tongues as though ye were somebodies, instead of dogs whom I drive out--thus!
1	Nor	nor	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	any	any	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	lolling	loll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	somebodies	somebody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | future | ye |  |  | here |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **loll out** | gerund | ye *not said here* | your tongues |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tongue=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | ye | somebodies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive out** | present | I | dogs |  |  |  | out, thus *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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